So I would still never dream of just casually reloading my PC, but there have been some positive aspects to the ongoing exercise.
- Having done it, I’m better prepared to do it again.
- Like moving house, it’s a great (if aggravating) opportunity for some good housekeeping. Lots of installed programs and crap that I don’t need to reinstall. Lots of stuff to remember that I now have.
- Perhaps because of the previous point, my machine is running a lot faster than it did. Part of that’s the hardware, but part of it is just that the accumulated widgets and obsolete settings of a couple of years are now off the boards.
- Things that weren’t working before — like Exchange-based IM (Windows Messenger) — are now working again. Which makes me think of a few other utilities that were mysteriously non-functional that would be worth checking out once more.
On the down side, the resolution on the tiny screen of this ThinkPad T40 is stuck at 1024×768, which is just killing me here. I like having a large (if microscopically rendered) desktop.
Work continues.
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Though, for some reason, Jaeger is now opening two tabs each time I click on a link. Oddness.
Which is really annoying, because both it and Firefox have exactly the same config as before (literally — I just copied over the files). Most of the time, though, if I double-click on a Jaeger entry, it will open up two tabs (or, sometimes, a tab and a new Firefox window).
Bears more playing with later.
Aha. Problem solved .
The T40 is the laptop I have from work and the resolution is one of the things I hate. Otherwise, it’s not a bad little machine.
No, it’s a sweet little machine. But the low res on this tiny screen is maddening. It’s like balancing all your work in your lap.